Indiana’s Learning That Anti-LGBT Laws Are Bad For Business
The backlash against Indiana’s license to discriminate continues to build. Yesterday, we covered how Indiana’s “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” (RFRA) is harmful to LGBT Indianans and bad for business. Today, Indiana Governor Mike Pence (R) tried and failed to tamp down the momentum against the law. While he said that the law needed a legislative fix, he continued to obfuscate. He claimed that his state’s RFRA did not allow for discrimination against the LGBT community, while that is definitively not the case. However, Pence’s concession that the RFRA fix must explicitly say that it does not allow businesses to deny services is due in part to the maelstrom of opposition to it across the country.
Below is a list of people, organizations and businesses opposed to the law that has already grown today and will surely continue to grow:
Organizations:
The White House
AFSCME
The Big Ten
Disciples of Christ
Duke University
Indiana, DePaw and Butler Universities
NBA, WNBA, the Indiana Pacers and the Indiana Fever
NCAA
San Francisco State University
USA Track & Field
Businesses:
Apple
Accenture
Angie’s List
Anthem
Cloudera
Cummins, Inc.
Dow AgroSciences
Eli Lilly and Company
EMC Isilon
Emmis Communications
Gap Inc. and Levi Strauss & Co.
Gen Con
Hortonworks
Indiana University Health
Marriott
NASCAR
Oracle
Pivotal
Platfora
Roche Diagnostics
Salesforce
Subaru
Twitter
Yelp
Cities and States:
The State of Connecticut
The State of New York
The State of Washington
The District of Columbia
The City of Portland
The City of San Francisco
The City of Seattle
Celebrities and Politicians:
Hillary Clinton
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
Charles Barkley
Cher
Ellen DeGeneres
Stephen King
Ashton Kutcher
Audra McDonald
Reggie Miller
Nick Offerman & Megan Mullally
George Takei
James Van Der Beek
Wilco
Editorial Boards:
Indianapolis Star
New York Times
San Francisco Chronicle
USA Today
Washington Post
BOTTOM LINE: We should be working on the urgent issues that we all face, such as strengthening our economy and families, not on divisive issues like trying to broadening religious liberty exemptions to allow discrimination against certain groups. Those distract us from important tasks and weaken the common good.
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